Dave's Gourmet 2 Piece Insanity Hot Sauce, 5 Ounce

Storytime: Dad was a chilehead and got this as a gift from coworker in 1992. I was 8 years old. My uncle, also a chilehead, tasted the first dab, choked dramatically, felt suspicious of my dad's foreknowledge/intentions. Neither of them had any interest in it after that and they didn't really respect the pepper extract as opposed to natural whole pepper heat. Kinda' regarded the sauce as a cheater of sorts. This became the epitomy of a needlessly hot sauce in our household, basically a joke or prank sauce. They flew to the fiery foods festival in New Mexico every year. We all found it funny the year that they reported how this sauce had been banned from the Fiery Foods Festival, for essentially this reason.Fast forward to 2019. My uncle passed away last year and my dad has late-stage alzheimers. Those habanero-popping OGs have obviously retired from the spicy food game, and I'll always love and respect them. I'm catching up on Hot One's episodes and wondering how Da Bomb and other "Hot Ones" sauces measure up to the original extract sauce. To my delight, I discover Dave's is still around and I snag this and also their even-hotter Ghost Pepper edition. Dunno if Dave's Insanity was the first of the insane extract sauces, but to me and my family, it was. I believe the Da Bomb "beyond insanity" catchphrase is a nod to this sauce. I have built up tolerance to these sauces in some personal quest that has something to do with Hot Ones and my family history. This isn't the hottest sauce you can buy, but it's the original HOT sauce, as far as I'm concerned. Don't just pour one out. Please put a dab on a cracker and eat it in rememberance of these guys, but also out of respect for the whole worldwide chilehead fam. There is something to that burn that I can't put my finger on, but it means something, and it crosses generations.

Pros:-Interesting Flavor-Great Value-Endorphin rush after burning your mouth/insidesCons:-GI Tract destruction. You'll feel every inch of its progress through your system.-Burns skin. Don't touch this!-God help you if it goes down the wrong way.This isn't the hottest sauce I've had, but it's the hottest -flavorful- sauce. Most agree that this is a 180k Scoville sauce. I know what it'll do to my insides for approximately 8 hours until it exits (burning, cramping, general discomfort) but it tastes so good, I can't resist it. I've tried dialing back the amounts on my meals to just a drop. Still, this is a little too serious for an every-day sauce. You've been warned.

I'll echo much of what's been said about this elixir of Hades, but I have a couple of public service points. Having gotten bored with Cholula, which doesn't even seem hot anymore, I ordered a row of well-reviewed sauces including Dave's. When they arrived I had the really terrible idea of trying them one after the other, putting a couple of drops of each on a spoon. By the end, of course, my mouth was spewing flames, so I turned to my usual remedy. Here's the first, and less gross, public service part. My remedy is a glassful of crushed ice that I keep renewing. Soothes the pain and after six or eight minutes you're OK. I've never read about this remedy, but it works. Crushed ice is probably best, but sucking on ice cubes would probably work well enough. So after that I got in the shower, and by the time it was over a demon had taken residence in my stomach. This wasn't like nausea or heartburn, rather a nasty, heavy pain that doesn't even bother to throb. It was in fact the worst pain I've felt since I had a kidney stone a few years ago. (Well, the stone was worse, but you get industrial-strength painkiller for kidney stones, and I doubt they'd supply it for sauce victims.) Dripping in sweat, I decided to lie down on a towel under the ceiling fan. After lying there moaning, I mean literally moaning, for a few minutes, I realized that this felt even worse. A glass of milk and a couple of Tums helped slightly, but not for long. Finally I felt vaguely like throwing up, so knelt by the throne. At that point my body decided to go the other route. (Here comes the gross but scientifically interesting part.) So in short order I was sitting on the john. And at that point, the storm in my stomach calmed down. That seems to me weird. I can't have gotten the sauce out of my stomach that fast. It's as if my brain decided, there's this evil stuff in our stomach so we'll turn on the pain switch, then after the session on the john it decided, hey, that must have gotten rid of the problem, so the brain turned off the switch. Anyway, that's more or less what it felt like. Not all the effects were gone--that took a couple more hours--but I could return to life and joy again. That night I discovered that five drops of Dave's in a bowl of soup make it quite saucy enough, thank you very much. This stuff is only for mature adults who pay attention to what they're dripping in their food. (By the way, if you haven't seen the YouTube clips of idiot males--and one ditto female--trying to show off their cojones by chomping on a ghost pepper, take a look. It's a hilarious parade of pain and regret. Rarely do you get to see stupidity rewarded so quickly and dramatically.)

This review was tough. The sauce, I love. It's one of the best hot sauces I've ever had. A tiny bit goes a long way. It's got a great flavor that goes well with most things. You only need a drop though.My issue is with the seller. And it looks like it came from Dave's site selling through Amazon. I am extremely disappointed. Look at those pictures and tell me you think this bottle should have been shipped like this. Just so sad they sent this product to me like this. As much as I love their sauces I don't know if I can trust them to send them money and be sent this in return. So bummed right now.Five stars for the sauce, but one star for the seller sending a bottle in this shape. Awful.

I’m mainly giving this 5 stars because I’ve been searching for years to find a sauce that is too hot for even my husbands tastes. This did the trick, nearly had him in tears. In fact, it was so spicy he’s even considering divorce-the only thing stopping him is the threat of me pouring this in his mouth while he’s sleeping

Daves is superheated for all cooking. Bitter taste but I use just a drop for soups or curries. That's all and will give equivalence to 6-8 bird's-eye chillies. So at that rate will last a year?. Do not taste direct on your tongue as you will need to get your tongue under a running tap for 10 mins. Having said that and having used Daves for 20+ years, I would say maybe the bite is not as fierce as when it first came out. I put a couple of drops in a bottle of vinegar and makes your fish and chips more interesting. There are now more insane sauces but they may come with health warnings and disclaimers.

This is the original sauce that was supposed to be very hot. It is! But it achieves this by disregarding the flavour completely. It just tastes bad. Like petroleum. And it is all because of the peeper extract that makes it so potent. There are products out there designed after this sauce that achieve same level of potency AND MORE without the extract that ruins the sauce.If you are after something that enhances taste of the stuff you eat then this is not what you are looking for.It just gives you heat with a bad taste in your mouth.

The sauce is great for a hot taste. Really hot! But the cap was cracked when I received it and it wasn't sealed properly. I don't blame this company I blame Amazon, somebody obviously dropped it and wrapped it up nice and tight thinking I wouldn't see it. Cap won't fit on. Amazon won't have it back so it was a waste of money. Sorry Dave's sauce, I can understand Amazon are busy but they aren't looking after your equipment.

I love my hot food and this little bottle certainly packs a punch 🤜. It is not my favourite hot sauce for flavour which is why I only gave it 4* BUT, if you are in the mood for some heat then reach for this.Definitely worth having a bottle in your pantry so stick a toilet roll in the fridge and click buy now 😁